NYMPH ALID^. NYMPHALIN^. EUTHALIA. 211 



Underside pale ferruginous, palest at the base o{ foreivlng, with inner row of lunulated 

 marks and outer row of spots crossing the disc of both wings, and markings at the base of 

 the wings, black, the spots being deepest from anal angle, where they are margined with 

 bluish-white ; abdominal margin broadly, and about anal angle somewhat green." 



"The male of Adolias \_ — Euthalia\ adi/na may at once be distinguished from A, {_—E.^ 

 apiades by its plain brown upperside." (^Muore, 1. c. in Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C.) 



E. adima is unknown to me, but is apparently nearest allied to E. jahnii. Mr. Butler 

 (1. c.) places E. adi/na as a synonym of E. sedeva, remarking that "^ff. sedeva is not the female 

 of E. apiades ; the latter has no large white spots upon the upper surface of the wings." I have 

 above pointed out that the female of E. appiades often has large white spots, and I have no 

 doubt that E. sedeva is one of the varietal forms of the female of that species. Mr. Moore 

 agrees with me in considering that E. sedeva is not the female of E- adima. The female 

 of E. adima is at present unknown. 



506. Elltlialia jaliau, Moore. 



^^(7//«jy«/z«?/, Moore, Horsfleld and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C, vol. i, p. 192, n. 387 (1857); id., 

 Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., new series, vol. v, p. 74. pi. vii, fig. x, female (1859) ; id. {female only), Butler, 

 Proc. Zoo'. Soc. Lond., 1868, p. 609, n. 58 ; id., Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, p. 831 ; Adolias sananda, 

 Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud., new series, vol. V, p. 76, n. 30, pi. vii, fig. 3, jnale (1859); id., Butler, Proc 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., i863, p. 609, n. 57. 



Habitat: North India, Sikkim, Assam, Sylhet, Chittagong, Upper Tenasserim. 

 Expanse: cJ,2-4to2-S; ?, 3-1 to 37 inches. 



Description: "Male \_As sananda]. Allied to A. [ = ^.] adima, but differs in 

 having the upperside purplish olive-brown, and the transverse zig-zag lines of dolA wings 

 are wider apart and well defined. The underside differs in having the markings much 

 less defined, and the hindwing is devoid of the greenish colour of the abdominal margin, 

 and the spots are without the bluish borders." {Moore, 1. c. in Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.) " Female 

 \_A, jahmi]. Upperside obscure brown, [very obscurely] glossed with green, Forezviirg ia.\c?ite, 

 with two indistinct black zig-zag lines across the disc, tinged with white anteriorly ; markings 

 at base of wing large and indistinct, Hindivmg with two indistinct black zig-zag lines 

 across the disc, also indistinct black basal marks. Underside ochreous brown, with 

 transverse zig-zag black lines and basal marks as above ; apex of foreiving with a white spot 

 and a blackish patch ; exterior margin dusky, basal half of hindiving, and along the outer 

 zig-zag line, with a bluish-grey tinge." {Moore, 1. c. in Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C.) 



Mr. Butler describes a variety of E. jahnu from Sylhet as follows : " Male. Hindwing 

 with about four squamiform blue marginal spots near the anal angle." I have no idea what 

 species he is comparing this variety with, unless it be E, balarama, which he errojjeously 

 in my opinion identifies as the male of E. jahnit, Mr. Moore also agrees with me in 

 referring E. jahnu and E. sananda to one species. 



The male of E. jahnu is quite distinct from any Indian species, except E. adima, which 

 I have not seen. On the upperside it is of a deep vinous purple, with the usual basal and 

 cellular markings on both wings, and with two common zigzag or lunulated black discal 

 bands. The underside is very similar to that of E. appiades, but the outer series of black 

 dots on the hindwing are not surrounded with blue as in that species. TJie description of 

 the female is rather meagre, so I have re-described it as follows : — Upperside brown. Fore- 

 wing with a fine black line at the base of the cell continued to the submedian nervure, a pair 

 of lines across the middle of the cell forming a rounded spot, another pair at the end of 

 the cell, the outer one constricted at tjie lower discoidal nervule, the enclosed space being 

 paler than the ground, a short black line at the base of the first median interspace, a large 

 oval spot in the submedian interspace just within the point where the first median nervule is 

 given off, outwardly constricted on the fold, A discal pair of fuscous bands formed of lunules 

 placed between the nervules, the apex of each lunule directed inwards, the inner band bro.id, 

 inwardly diffused, starting from the subcostal nervure to th* third median nervule and directed 



